Reality Show Host As President Creates Own Climate "Reality"

Trump is running a fake climate "reality" show that is
anything but reality 

We all know that those "reality shows" on TV aren't actually reality. They're pretty scripted.

These shows create the illusion of reality and we're entertained by it. It's all harmless fun, really.

What do you do, though, when a reality show host and huckster lands in the White House, like Donald Trump somehow did.

Trump's good at one thing: Putting on a show to obscure reality and give us a bunch of fiction. And his crowning achievement in this realm is climate change.

He and his minions are trying so hard to pretend climate change doesn't exist that they've created their own reality. And the number of efforts in this regard are breathtaking.

I'll list just some of them in a minute, but Trump the reality show host keeps having actual reality thrust on him. Though I'm sure he doesn't care. The show must go on.

As noted in the Category 6 weather and climate blog, the latest salvo is a Climate Science Special Report, an initial report from a congressionally mandated effort by hundreds of U.S. scientists that assesses how climate is changing in the United States.

The report says humans are likely responsible for 93 to 123 percent of Earth's net global warming after 1950, notes Category 6. 

Wait a minute, how can humans be reponsible for more than 100 percent of the warming, as the report suggests?

It turns out there's a decent chance that if it weren't for us burning fossil fuels and releaseing tons and tons of greenhouses gases into the air, the world might have actually slightly cooled since 1950.

Trump and his group, though, continue their full court press to obscure facts like those that appear in this assessment, and facts agreed upon by almost all climate scientists.  There's so many examples I don't know where to begin.

This week, Syria signed the Paris Climate Accord. Last month Nicaragua did. That makes the United States under Trump a rogue nation. Because now, the United States is the only nation on the planet not to sign on to the accord. We were in, of course, but now Trump is trying to back us out.

Trump's move is deeply unpopular both globally and within the United States, but what does he care about what voters want?

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency would not allow its scientists to speak at a recent Rhode Island climate change conference. The Trump administration won't replace aging satellites that monitor Arctic sea ice, and the Republican-led Congress ordered an alternative sea ice monitoring system dismantled because it doesn't want to pay for storage costs.

Yep, keep pretending climate change isn't reality. Just keep "enjoying' Trump's alternative reality show. It'll all come back to bite us.